roˈtundo Now rare or Obs.
[Alteration of rotunda.]
† 1. A circular form or figure. Obs. rare.
| 1625 Purchas Pilgrims II. x. 1832 Builded in a rotundo, and open at the top with a large round. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 428 The Iland lyeth almost in a Rotundo. |
2. A circular building, chamber, or space.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. viii. 368 The chiefest Mosque..[has] many Iles, Quires, and circulary Rotundoes. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 338 A large Rotundo fenced about with a high wall of brick, opening..against the Front of the house. 1804 E. de Acton Tale without Title III. 232 The open benches in this rural rotundo. 1845 Petrie Round Towers Irel. i. iii. 33 The Persians..may have worshipped fire in rotundos of above 30 feet diameter. |
| attrib. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. II. 218 There was a pavilion erected in this garden,..built in the rotundo form. |
3. A rounded part of a coach. [F.
rotonde.]
| 1867 Dixon New Amer. I. iii. 35 Cutting off the coupé of a French diligence, and bellying out the rotundo. |